Alzheimers Care Colorado Blog

When Alzheimers is part of your life, whether personally or with someone you love, it’s important to have resources to turn to, and that’s why we created the Alzheimers Care Colorado blog. Let us be a resource for basics on caring for a loved one with Alzheimers, understanding your options, and how to manage this illness.

Assured Assisted Living is proud to announce that Stephanie Downare, President of Operations, is a Certified Independent Trainer with Positive Approach to Care. The Positive Approach to Care training was created by Teepa Snow (teepasnow.com). Dementia is a...

Photo via Wikimedia Authored by: Karen Weeks of elderwellness.net Moving into an assisted living facility is a big step, and perhaps the most challenging part is the downsizing involved. Most seniors will be moving from a large family home into a smaller space...

Authored by: Karen Weeks of elderwellness.net As the years tick by, there are obvious signs that you are nearing the senior stage of your life, such as frosted locks and wrinkles where there were none before. However, there are several chronic diseases that you are at...

Nearly 46 percent of aging adults report having trouble sleeping at one time or another. Dementia adds another dimension to the growing problem of sleeplessness amongst older adults, as some studies have shown that nearly a quarter of Alzheimer’s patients alone suffer...

Written By: Karen Weeks of Elder Wellness (elderwellness.net) The death of a spouse is ranked as life’s single most stressful event. Losing the person you’ve shared your life with for decades, who you’ve raised children and navigated life’s ever-changing challenges...

By: Karen Weeks of Elder Wellness (elderwellness.net) As you grow older, it can feel like losing weight is harder than ever. What’s more, you may be concerned about dwindling muscle mass and frail bones. Thankfully, there are some tried-and-true methods for losing...

The financial consequences of an aging population could make access to high-quality care more difficult in the future. The old-age dependency ratio, which is just one portion of population trends tracked by the census, remained stable from the 1980s until 2010. In...

By: Karen Weeks of Elder Wellness (elderwellness.net) Most older adults need an average of seven to nine hours of sleep each night, yet a poll of 1,065 seniors between the ages 65 and 80 revealed that one in three individuals had problems getting adequate shuteye....

Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE) have found a possible explanation for the difficulty in spatial orientation experienced sometimes by elderly people. In the brains of older adults, they detected an unstable activity in an area that...

While memory loss is an early symptom of Alzheimer's disease, its presence doesn't mean a person will develop dementia. A new study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has found a clinically useful way to predict who won't develop Alzheimer's disease,...